Friedwardt Winterberg’s work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation. Winterberg is well respected for his work in the fields of nuclear fusion and plasma physics, and Edward Teller has been quoted as saying that he had “perhaps not received the …
Compact Composite Objects (CCOs), nuggets of dense Color-Flavor-Locked Superconducting quark matter created before or during the Quantum Chromo- Dynamics phase transition in the early universe, could provide a natural explanation for both Dark Matter (DM) and the observed cosmological baryon asymmetry, without requiring modifications to fundamental physics. This hypothesis implies a relic CCO population in …
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Researchers working on Sandia’s Magnetized Liner Inertial Fusion (MagLIF) experiment added a secondary magnetic field to thermally insulate the hydrogen fuel, and a laser to preheat it (see ‘Feeling the pinch’). In late November, they tested the system for the first time, using 16 million amperes of current, a 10-tesla magnetic field and 2 kilojoules …
The US dollar is expected to strengthen next year while the euro and yen head in the opposite direction. This is because of the expected taper. Closer to home, the appreciation in the yuan versus the greenback is tipped to slow after lasting for more than eight years. As for the Fed, analysts remain divided …
In 2011, the Navy discovered “aggressive” corrosion around Independence‘s engines. The problem is so bad that the barely year-old ship will have to be laid up in a San Diego drydock so workers can replace whole chunks of her hull. The 418-foot-long warship is dissolving due to one whopper of a design flaw. There are …
2014 will see commercial neural network deep learning chips and commercial neuromorphic chips. Deep Learning chips can outperform graphic processors by 150 times for some tasks and new neuromorphic chips can tolerate, adapt and learn from mistakes. Purdue University’s deep learning co-processor design is specialized to run multilayered neural networks above all else and to …
Regimagining India is a book with 60 prominent authors. Each writes a chapter. Several are very good. I like Ruchir Sharma, head of Morgan Stanley’s Emerging Market equity and author of Breakout Nations in Search of the Next Economic Miracles. Ruchir puts the India situation in context of other emerging and developing economies. India began …
Why do the poor borrow to save? Why do they miss out on free life-saving immunizations, but pay for unnecessary drugs? In Poor Economics, Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, two practical visionaries working toward ending world poverty, answer these questions from the ground. In a book the Wall Street Journal called “marvelous, rewarding,” the …
The world has about 24 kilograms of Tritium The planned 1 GW commercial scale prototype Tokamak would burn that supply in 2 months. Currently 1 kilogram of Tritium costs $100 million per kilogram. The plan is for DEMO to start breeding tritium as soon as possible after it starts up. Everything about the Tokamak project …
Eric Lerner presented at the 2013 Fusion Energy Symposium. What Has Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) achieved so far ? * Ion temperature—goal achieved—over 1.8 billion degrees, enough to ignite pB11 * Confinement time—goal achieved 20 ns—more than 8 ns goal * Energy transfer to plasmoid—over 50% of goal * Density—must increase by 10,000 Steps To …